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Whitney Laboratory For Marine Bioscience
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2010
Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience is a full-time University of Florida research center for biomedical research and biotechnology.
Founded in 1974, the Whitney Lab is dedicated to using marine model animals for studying fundamental problems in biology and applying that knowledge to issues of human health, natural resources, and the environment.
Led by Director Mark Q. Martindale, Ph.D. who specializes in the evolutionary development of marine organisms, the laboratory is made up of nine faculty-led research laboratories with more than 70 researchers and staff.
An important part of the lab’s mission is to train future experimental biologists through its graduate, postdoctoral and summer National Science Foundation sponsored undergraduate internship program. The laboratory provides a marine animal focused K-12 STEM outreach program and a public lecture series, with the goal of increasing community engagement in lifelong learning and marine science.
Founded in 1974, the Whitney Lab is dedicated to using marine model animals for studying fundamental problems in biology and applying that knowledge to issues of human health, natural resources, and the environment.
Led by Director Mark Q. Martindale, Ph.D. who specializes in the evolutionary development of marine organisms, the laboratory is made up of nine faculty-led research laboratories with more than 70 researchers and staff.
An important part of the lab’s mission is to train future experimental biologists through its graduate, postdoctoral and summer National Science Foundation sponsored undergraduate internship program. The laboratory provides a marine animal focused K-12 STEM outreach program and a public lecture series, with the goal of increasing community engagement in lifelong learning and marine science.
EAW-From Jellyfish to Sharks: Ocean Swimmers Provide the Blueprints for Next-Gen Underwater Vehicles
Dr. Brad Gemmell, Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida
Aquatic animals have always been able to move through water with much higher efficiencies than human-made vehicles. This presentation delves into the fascinating world of natural swimmers such as jellyfish, bony fishes, and sharks to explore the secrets behind their efficient locomotion.
Using state-of-the-art techniques, the Gemmell lab has collected data on the unique biomechanics and fluid mechanics of these aquatic animals. The talk also emphasizes how this knowledge is being applied to innovate underwater vehicle designs, creating more efficient, agile, and adaptable systems. By bridging biology and engineering, the study of natural swimmers offers a pathway toward next-generation aquatic technology and expands the potential applications, from environmental monitoring to underwater exploration.
Aquatic animals have always been able to move through water with much higher efficiencies than human-made vehicles. This presentation delves into the fascinating world of natural swimmers such as jellyfish, bony fishes, and sharks to explore the secrets behind their efficient locomotion.
Using state-of-the-art techniques, the Gemmell lab has collected data on the unique biomechanics and fluid mechanics of these aquatic animals. The talk also emphasizes how this knowledge is being applied to innovate underwater vehicle designs, creating more efficient, agile, and adaptable systems. By bridging biology and engineering, the study of natural swimmers offers a pathway toward next-generation aquatic technology and expands the potential applications, from environmental monitoring to underwater exploration.
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Evenings at Whitney - Florida Loves Manatees: A Cultural History of Manatees in Florida
มุมมอง 103หลายเดือนก่อน
Steven Noll, Instructional Professor, Department of History at the University of Florida Dr. Noll’s talk focuses on the relationship of Floridians and manatees in historical perspective - how they moved from useless sea cow to beloved marine mammal icon. It examines their endangered status and how larger issues like politics and development affect them.
Evenings at Whitney - A Journey Around the Globe -How Microbes Can Provide Drugs to Combat Diseases
มุมมอง 682 หลายเดือนก่อน
Dr. Sandra Loesgen, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory Microorganisms provide a large amount of the current drugs. Especially among the antibiotics and anti-cancer treatments, over 65% of our clinical treatments were directly derived or inspired from microbes. In this lecture, Dr. Loesgen will give a background on microbial chemical warfare or the c...
Evenings at Whitney-Sea Turtle & Marine Mammal Assessments: Insights into Marine Ecosystem Health
มุมมอง 1018 หลายเดือนก่อน
Dr. Annie Page, Associate Research Professor and Clinical Veterinarian at Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute The talk covers health assessments of wild sea turtles, dolphins, and whales, and will include examples of current and recently completed research projects from our Marine Wildlife Veterinary Medicine & Research Program at FAU Harbor Branch. *Please note an...
Evenings at Whitney - Fish Ecology in a Rapidly Changing World
มุมมอง 1299 หลายเดือนก่อน
Robert Lamb, Ph.D., Marine Ecologist, Research Assistant Professor at the UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station Robert shares his research on fish ecology and the response of marine fishes to anthropogenic impacts such as climate change. Using the Galapagos Islands as a model system for short and long-term ocean warming, Robert explores hypotheses regarding how climate change will alter popul...
Evenings at Whitney-Tapeworm Tails:Understanding stem cells and regeneration in Hymenolepis diminuta
มุมมอง 10110 หลายเดือนก่อน
Tania Rozario, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases at the University of Georgia Tapeworms are notorious survivors that thrive due to their enormous capacity to grow. regenerate, and reproduce at prolific rates. These physiological feats are driven by stem cells but the molecular mechanisms that regulate them have remained myste...
Evenings at Whitney - Battle for the Bats: Development of Treatments for White Nose Syndrome
มุมมอง 26611 หลายเดือนก่อน
Christine Salomon, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota White nose syndrome (WNS) is a disease of hibernating bats that is rapidly spreading across North America and causing devastating losses of bat populations. WNS is caused by a fungal pathogen called Pseudogymnoascus destructans which is readily spread between bats and persists in hibernation environment...
Whitney Laboratory - Looking for a New Director!
มุมมอง 22Kปีที่แล้ว
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/529331/director-whitney-laboratory-for-marine-bioscience-assistant-associate-professor The Whitney community seeks an innovative leader who has strategic and executive strengths to forge bold scientific directions, and to expand a culture that values and promotes diversity. The leader sought will bring passion to advance our mission to train, mentor, and empower t...
Adopt a Washback Sea Turtle!
มุมมอง 168ปีที่แล้ว
affinitygiving.ufl.edu/campaigns/2023-adopt-a-washback-campaign Adopt a Washback Sea Turtle Returns this Year to Support the Sea Turtle Hospital at Whitney Laboratory Symbolic adoptions available October 18 - November 1, 2023 Join the Sea Turtle Hospital at UF Whitney Laboratory to help support hundreds of washback turtles cared for by hospital staff each season by symbolically adopting a washb...
Evenings at Whitney - Bones, stones, and DNA: A Nature editor’s-eye view of human evolution
มุมมอง 112ปีที่แล้ว
Luíseach Nic Eoin, Ph.D., Senior Editor at Nature Ecology and Evolution Human evolution is a complex and fast-moving topic that’s key to understanding who we are and where we come from. The past decade and a half have seen something of a molecular revolution in archaeology and palaeoanthropology that means we know more than ever about the complexities of the human family tree, but classic techn...
Evenings at Whitney - Tracking global biodiversity by harnessing the wind
มุมมอง 249ปีที่แล้ว
Elizabeth Clare, PhD, Professor of Biology at York University In this presentation Dr. Clare will describe the power of “environmental” or “eDNA”, a type of genetic material which seems to exist all around us all the time, an almost invisible source of information found in the water, soils and even the air we breathe. She will describe how it has been used as a tool for decades in the study of ...
Evenings at Whitney - The Evolution of Two Transmissible Cancers in Tasmanian Devils
มุมมอง 96ปีที่แล้ว
Max Stammnitz, PhD, EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Genomic Regulation Tasmanian devils are the world's largest carnivorous marsupials and endemic to the Australian island state of Tasmania. Over the past three decades, the species has been undergoing a substantial population decline - leading to its categorization as “endangered” on the IUCN Red List in 2008. This is mainly due to m...
Evenings at Whitney - Fountains of youth discovered through the biology of aging
มุมมอง 84ปีที่แล้ว
Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, PhD, Professor of Physiology and Aging, College of Medicine at the University of Florida Although aging is complex his team has made significant advances in better understanding the biology of aging by understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms. As they learn more about these biological pathways’ (senescence, genome instability, oxidative damage, epigenetics) e...
Evenings at Whitney - How to build an animal: Learning from the embryo
มุมมอง 110ปีที่แล้ว
Dr. Paula Murphy, Professor in the Zoology Department at University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin Researching how an animal is formed from a single cell (the fertilized egg cell), generating the unique shape and form of that species, addresses some of the most fundamental questions in biology e.g., how cells become different to each other and how the shapes of structures such as an arm or a...
Evenings at Whitney - Circadian clocks in muscle: time does matter
มุมมอง 109ปีที่แล้ว
Circadian clocks in muscle: time does matter Dr. Karyn Esser, Professor and Chair in the Department of Physiology and Aging at the University of Florida Yogi Berra is quoted as saying: “You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.” It is quickly become apparent that timing is not just important in sports and comedy but it is important for many aspects of biol...
Evenings at Whitney - Preservation Institute St. Augustine: Exploring coastal heritage
มุมมอง 97ปีที่แล้ว
Evenings at Whitney - Preservation Institute St. Augustine: Exploring coastal heritage
Join us to support Whitney Laboratory K-12 Education Programs!
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Join us to support Whitney Laboratory K-12 Education Programs!
Evenings at Whitney - Are Honey Bees Really Dying?
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Evenings at Whitney - Are Honey Bees Really Dying?
Evenings at Whitney - Big Ideas from Little Brains
มุมมอง 1612 ปีที่แล้ว
Evenings at Whitney - Big Ideas from Little Brains
Evenings at Whitney - The Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic
มุมมอง 1172 ปีที่แล้ว
Evenings at Whitney - The Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic
How did you choose your research question?
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How did you choose your research question?
How did you choose your research animal?
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How did you choose your research animal?
How did you decide on your college major?
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How did you decide on your college major?
Do I need to know my major before I go to college, or will there be time to change my focus?
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Do I need to know my major before I go to college, or will there be time to change my focus?
What is the most EXCITING part of your job?
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What is the most EXCITING part of your job?
What is something you wish you had done or had done differently while attending college?
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What is something you wish you had done or had done differently while attending college?
Is college REALLY that much harder than advanced high school classes?
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Is college REALLY that much harder than advanced high school classes?
Do you suggest taking a Gap Year, and if so, when?
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Do you suggest taking a Gap Year, and if so, when?
Надеюсь, технологии дрйдут до достойного автоматизированного перевода голоса при моей жизни. Услышал о Морозе от Никитина, хотел посмотреть. А тут языковой барьер
This is great! Thanks for this.
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I find this talk a little disingenuous as at first she states that the rising seas will not occur during our lifetime and then proceeds to let everyone know that it is going to impact them during their life. Well, it IS going to impact people now as it is NOW impacting people and the trajectory for impacts was not captured in this presentation. If you want people to become aware and start talking about this then stop lying to them and let them know the real danger. I'm not giving this a thumbs down b/c at least you're out there trying. Just not sure why you are sugar-coating the message.
When I grow up I always dreamed of working at the Whitney laboratory I live right near it in palm coast Florida I grew up near the ocean and I love to explore the ocean and I have 2 salt water fish tanks
This is important, informative and clearly understandable. Thank you so much for this great video! I'm sharing this widely.
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It was an honor to help out. What a fabulous event. I encourage everyone to become a Friends of the Turtles and help support the important work they do!
I had a great experience at Seahorse Key! I was able to spend the whole weekend there, stay the night in the lighthouse, and learn about the islands amazing creatures and history. Can't wait to go back this weekend!